Kira Soltanovich is a comedian, writer, and actress best known for her work on prank-oriented reality shows such as Oxygen Network’s Girls Behaving Badly and TV Guide Network’s Trapped by TV Guide. She is also known as the voice of a talking photo booth in a sketch on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, andThe Jay Leno Show. She’s also the voice of Carla on the animated series Iggy Cool. Soltanovich is part of the 90-minute comedy special Hot Tamales Live on the Showtime Network. She guest starred on Prank Stars, a Disney channel series. She currently hosts her own parenting podcast: thekirashow.com. Plus a song from Gary Shapiro and a touching story from Dylan Brody…and Steve Skrovan.
Dom Irrera was recently voted one of the hundred funniest comics of all time by Comedy Central. Also Ana Kasparian,Laura House, King of TV Paul Goebel, Steve Skrovan and Film Critic Michael Snyder.
Ana Kasparian is the American co-host and producer for the online news show The Young Turks. Kasparian began working as a fill-in producer for The Young Turks in 2007, and is now co-host of the main show and host of The Point on the TYT Network. She also appeared on the TV version of the show that aired on Current TV.
Kasparian started as an assistant producer with CBS Radio news stations in Los Angeles, first with KFWB and then KNX. She has also worked with AOL News, YouTube, TidalTv and On Point. In addition to being the host of TYT, Ana Kasparian appeared frequently on the English version of the Russian-based channel RT and RT America.
After becoming a fill-in host in April 2007, Kasparian became the producer and co-host with Cenk Uygur of the progressive talk radio on Sirius XM Satellite Radio and internet show/TV show The Young Turks. She co-hosted TYT University, a show focused on issues faced by university students for some years, and now hosts another TYT Network show, The Point. Ana is an agnostic. She completed her Master of Political Science in 2010.
New movies, new books and new congressmen. Dr. Lee Rogers, Film Critic Michael Snyder, Down With Tyranny’s Howie Klein, Journalist John Matthews, and Author Cari Lynn.
Dr. Lee Rogers is running for US Congress in California’s 25th district. He narrowly lost two years ago, this year he is going to win. Howie Klein from Down With Tyranny joins us.
For 20 years prostitution was legal in New Orleans. Cari Lynn is is the author of Madam which tells that story. Plus David Kukoff talks about his new book Children of the Canyon. Along with Laura House and Steve Skrovan.
Madam tells the story of when vice had a legal home and jazz was being born—the captivating story of an infamous true-life madam
New Orleans, 1900. Mary Deubler makes a meager living as an “alley whore.” That all changes when bible-thumping Alderman Sidney Story forces the creation of a red-light district that’s mockingly dubbed “Storyville.” Mary believes there’s no place for a lowly girl like her in the high-class bordellos of Storyville’s Basin Street, where Champagne flows and beautiful girls turn tricks in luxurious bedrooms. But with gumption, twists of fate, even a touch of Voodoo, Mary rises above her hopeless lot to become the notorious Madame Josie Arlington.
Filled with fascinating historical details and cameos by Jelly Roll Morton, Louis Armstrong, and E. J. Bellocq, Madam is a fantastic romp through The Big Easy and the irresistible story of a woman who rose to power long before the era of equal rights.
Children of the Canyon tells the story of David, a boy growing up in LA’s fabled Laurel Canyon neighborhood as the 1960s counterculture is coming to an end. David’s record producer father works with the reclusive former leader of a surf music band on an album that promises to elevate the legacies of both men to immortal status. His distant, peripatetic mother rides the waves of activism and feminism in and out of David’s life. The elusive Topanga, named for the city’s last remaining Eden, whom David meets on the beach the night of his parents’ separation continues to elude his futile attempts to reconnect with her throughout the decade. Through David’s eyes, we bear witness to the fallout from the California Dream’s malfunction: the ruined families, failed revolutionaries, curdled musical idealism, and, ultimately, the rise of the conservatism that put the country on its present path.
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